What you can purchase is on your left side with multi choices and different types.
On your right side there a bland screen, that well hold your choices you purchased. You may want to carefully review your purchases on the right side screen, and remove anything you don't need, or change they morale or leadership rating.
Example, After purchase a formation unit require as your first unit or your main core unit, you can lighten your core unit somewhat by remove half or more of it. Next your can purchase different types of support troops and vehicles.
Below is from the manual page 53 to 54.
PURCHASE FORCES
This screen appears if Unit Purchase was set to Human for one or both forces. It
will appear once for each side that is set to Human Purchase.
The Purchase screen for Quick Battles is very similar to the Purchase screen
used by scenario authors in the editor (see the Editor chapter later in this
manual).Here, we will describe the basic functions and the main differences
between QB Purchases and Editor purchases.
The Purchase screen consists of several main areas (explained below in the
order that you usually use them):
MAIN MENU
The menu bar on the left of the screen is the main workhorse for the Purchase
Window. Here you see three lines showing your 1) points budget, 2) how
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much of it you have spent already, and 3) how much is remaining. You will
also find a button called “Suggestions” which allows you to have the computer
player put together a suggested force for you with just one click. You
do not have to accept the suggestion if you don’t want to, you can edit it or
discard it, and you can have the computer make as many suggestions as you
like.
The Map Preview button is active if map preview is enabled for this side, and
opens a 3D preview of the battlefield when clicked.
By clicking the Cancel button, you exit the QuickBattle and return to the
QuickBattle menu. By clicking the OK button, you accept any purchases
and choices made in this screen and proceed to load the battle map.
FORMATION SELECTION TABS
Located on the left side of the screen, this is where you determine the settings
on which the choices available in the Available Troops window are based on.
You select the branches and formations and special units and vehicles that
you want to purchase here. The available choices are preset based on the
Unit Options you selected when starting the QB.
When you start purchasing your units, you MUST start with at least one Formation.
This is necessary so that a proper Command&Control chain can be
established for the battle. After purchasing one or more formations, you can
then switch the display to Specialist Teams or Individual Vehicles if you
would like to “cherry-pick” specific units that are not part of the pre-defined
(historical) Table of Organization & Equipment. These units are automatically
attached to the currently selected (already purchased) Formation.
You may want to review your manual again, on how to purchases and how to edit your purchases too, Hedgehog.
As I started to write this, I soon realizes that the game manual does a far better job of description the in's and out's and its requirements too.
Hope this help and doesn't confused you, my friend
Lighthorse
